DeAnna Ernestine Vonbartheld is a Full Spectrum Doula specializing in infertility and placenta encapsulation, providing services through her company, DelvaDoulas. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Medical Humanities with a Pre-Medicine concentration from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her extensive background in science is complemented by expertise in complementary healthcare modalities, including nutrition, aromatherapy, and natural comfort measures. DeAnna co-founded the San Antonio Black Doula Collective, serving as Chief Operating Officer (COO), and is also a Co-founder and the Vice President of the Texas Doula Association. In these roles, she is dedicated to advancing the doula profession and actively engages in legislative efforts related to doula practices.

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Morgan Miles is an Austin-based birthworker, social worker, member of the Maternal Health Equity Collaborative, and Executive Director of the community based doula organization, GALS. She creates a lasting difference in people’s lives by bringing over a decade of birth, leadership, and changework experience, coupled with a trauma-informed, anti-racist, and family-centered lens. Morgan believes that in order to eliminate birth and perinatal health disparities, we have to work at every level- direct care, systems work, and legislative action. She also believes that true, lasting change takes place in community, where humanness is centered and joy is abundant.

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Carrie Murphy is a full-spectrum doula, mother, and writer. She has been a doula since 2012 and has supported families through all kinds of reproductive experiences in several states and cities around the country. Her writing on pregnancy, birth, and parenting has appeared in publications like Elle, Glamour, Women’s Health, and Healthline. Active in advocacy for doulas, Carrie is a co-founder of the New Mexico Doula Association, a co-founder of the University of New Mexico Hospital Volunteer Birth Companion Program, and a board member of the Texas Doula Association. From 2020-2023, she worked as the Director of Community and Doula Services for doula startup Major Care. She lives in Austin, where she enjoys hiking with her family and learning plant medicine.